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French soldiers talk to an Afghan security official at the scene of a suicide bombing in Kabul, Afghanistan. A suicide bomber rammed a car packed with explosives into a mini-bus carrying foreign aviation workers to the airport in the Afghan capital. (Photo by Ahmad Jamshid / AP)

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Thalidomide may help with lung disease

A new study out of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine suggests that the key to improving the lives of patients with IPF may be a drug with an infamous history — thalidomide.

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ABC News

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Celgene’s thalidomide shown to improve cough in patients with ailment

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BusinessWeek

Our (work) education crisis

The solution to corporate America’s widespread lament about underprepared workers has been to concentrate on school reform. But it could be more fruitful to try a new way.

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BusinessWeek

Blast kills 12 in Kabul

A suicide bomber rammed a car packed with explosives into a mini-bus carrying aviation workers. A militant group claimed the attack aimed to avenge an anti-Islam film.

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TIME

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Four dead in Kabul suicide blast

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YouTube

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An actress in controversial anti-Islam film felt duped by the filmmaker

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Yahoo! News

132 prisoners escape from Mexican jail through tunnel

More than 130 inmates escaped through a tunnel from a prison in northern Mexico, setting off a massive search by police and soldiers in an area close to the U.S. border.

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Guardian

Apple’s shares reach $700 as iPhone 5 shatters sales record

Apple Inc.’s shares surpassed $700 as record first-day orders for the latest iPhone fueled optimism that the company will keep generating revenue growth.

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Bloomberg

Why Apple‘s ’boring‘ iPhone 5 is selling fast while smarter phones aren’t

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Telegraph.co.uk

NATION

Chicago teachers to consider offer, end the strike

Teachers will go over the details of a contract settlement as the clock ticks down to an afternoon meeting in which they are expected to vote on whether to end a seven-day strike.

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ABC News

Confusing array of license rules reflects angst about aging’s impact on driving

More older drivers are on the road than ever before as states adopt licensing rules that reflect scientific uncertainty and public angst over a growing question: How can we tell if it’s time to give up the keys?

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Star Tribune

POLITICS

Video puts Mitt Romney on his back foot

Videos posted by Mother Jones magazine show Mitt Romney telling high-dollar donors at a fundraiser that he can’t count on the support of the “47 percent” of the country who don’t pay taxes.

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Politico

Obama and Romney use China as a campaign argument

In an election that may be decided on the strength of the American economy, President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney are looking to China to score political points.

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BUSINESS

Confidence among US homebuilders improves to 6-year high

In September, confidence among U.S. homebuilders climbed to the highest level in more than six years, adding to signs of progress in residential construction.

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Bloomberg

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Homebuilders gain confidence

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CNBC

What it takes to be ‘Made in USA’

With so much talk about the need to revive U.S. manufacturing and create jobs, more companies are touting their American-made roots in order to lure customers.

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CNNMoney

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Orbiter spots ‘dry ice’ snowflakes falling on Red Planet

A spacecraft orbiting Mars has detected carbon dioxide snow falling on the Red Planet, making Mars the only body in the solar system known to host this weird weather phenomenon.

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Christian Science Monitor

Implant from pig grows muscle in humans

A new clinical trial is testing pieces of pig tissue that, when implanted in soldiers’ wounds, helps re-grow torn-out muscle.

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LiveScience

ENVIRONMENT

Toxic algae blooms take over some of the lakes of America

The toxic blooms of blue-green algae that coated and stunk up the Great Lakes from the 1950s to the 1970s have returned to the region with a vengeance.

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Grist

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Algae blooms in US Great Lakes

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Phys.org

Science advisor says badger cull plan is a ‘crazy scheme’

The scientist whose research is being cited by the government to justify its plan to cull badgers in England has described the scheme as “crazy”.

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BBC

Battle over mining in ancient forest goes to Sweden’s highest court

Environmentalists warn judges that damaging precedent will be set if large-scale limestone mining is permitted in Ojnare forest.

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Guardian

LIVING AND ENTERTAINMENT

Maker of puzzle finds few wanting to try it

The world’s largest hand-drawn maze is filled with thousands of U-turns, intersections and dead ends. Yet, the maze is short on people who want to solve it.

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Wall Street Journal

L.A.’s transit revolution

How a ballot initiative, a visionary mayor and a quest for growth are turning Los Angeles into America’s next great mass-transit city.

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Slate

Columns And Op-Ed

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Column (Margaret Carlson):

No, Romney’s campaign is not doomed

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Bloomberg

Welfare-to-work rules should create, not fake, progress

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Columbus Dispatch

Amend terrible farm bill

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Daily Herald

Column (Jodi Haavig):

Why early learning is critical for kindergarteners

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Column (Adam Cohen):

Should anti-Islam filmmakers be thrown in jail?

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TIME

Column (Mark S. Wagner):

Time to argue for Islam’s humane view of blasphemy

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Christian Science Monitor

Column (Elizabeth lorns):

Is medical science built on shaky foundations?

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Column (Alex Seitz Wald):

Romney in panic mode

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Salon

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GOOD NEWS

Minister celebrates 50 years of work and worship in Granite City

Henry Crippen came to Granite City in 1950 looking for work. He found it — and God along the way. Now, the Rev. Henry Crippen, 78, is celebrating 50 years of ministry.

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St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Michigan nonprofit Hidden Harvest to deliver 20 millionth pound of food

A nonprofit that collects extra food from businesses and redistributes it to food pantries, soup kitchens and homeless shelters expects to deliver its 20 millionth pound of food this month.

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Detroit Free Press

NFL player serves the homeless by washing their feet

Steve Smith, Carolina Panthers wide receiver, is using this season to ease into the humanitarian hobby he plans to pursue after he leaves football behind — serving the homeless.

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Huffington Post

WORLD

Shrinking Siberia

Russia’s population is crowded west of the Ural Mountains, where the best and brightest of Siberia are flocking, too, away from the widespread corruption and lack of opportunities in their homeland.

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Newsweek

India: Bring on the Wal-Mart greeters

The Indian government has announced economic reforms that would allow Wal-Mart retail stores to enter India to increase foreign capital flows onto the subcontinent.

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Christian Science Monitor

EDUCATION

Startups test ideas with educators

Imagine K12, the biggest startup incubator in the U.S. for education technology, brings in educators to tell entrepreneurs what they really need and then create products to meet those needs.

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’Game-changers’ in global education

Leaders in international higher education discussed the trends they expect to inform the future of the field last week at the European Association for International Education conference.

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Inside Higher Ed

HEALTH

No evidence of health risk found from cell phones, study

There is no scientific evidence that low-level electromagnetic field exposure from mobile phones and other transmitting devices causes adverse health effects, according to a new Norwegian study.

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ScienceDaily

Cell phone radiation levels

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CNET News

The downer side of war

Substance abuse accounted for more time spent in hospitals by U.S. troops last year than any of the other 138 medical conditions and injuries tracked by the Pentagon.

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TIME

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Study cites military hospitals over record-high substance abuse

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CBS News

RELIGION AND SPIRITUALITY

Finding joy in simplicity

There exists within each of us a natural state of simple and open awareness in which we feel happy, light and at peace. In contrast, the state of suffering or unhappiness is complicated.

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Spirituality & Health

Trial set for butler who hoped to cleanse Vatican ‘evil’

The butler who served the pope‘s meals and helped him dress goes on trial for leaking Benedict’s private papers in the hope of cleaning up what he saw as “evil and corruption everywhere in the Church”.

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Yahoo! News

SPORTS

Replacement officials taking heat

Coaches and players around the NFL are losing patience and speaking out against the fill-in officials following a slew of questionable calls.

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U.S. News & World Report

Handshakes row could resemble ‘mafia feud’, says PFA boss

The row over Anton Ferdinand‘s refusal to shake John Terry’s hand could descend into a “mafia feud”, according to Professional Footballers’ Association chairman Gordon Taylor.

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BBC

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

To the informed patient: What if the doctor is wrong?

Evidence is mounting that second opinions can lead to significant changes in a patient’s diagnosis.

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Wall Street Journal

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A Cambodian vendor carries household goods on his motorbike for selling through a village of Samroang Andet at the outskirt of Phnom Penh, Cambodia. (Photo by Heng Sinith / AP)

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